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Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony and Re-Opening on Art's Birthday
January 17, 2023, 1:00 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on January 17 to celebrate the opening of its exhibition space and café at its new location at 313 Highway 124 in South River Ontario. This will take place in conjunction with the annual international Art’s Birthday celebration and will include an outdoor performance on NAISA’s Decomposing Piano installation. There is also an exhibition indoors - Tree Earth Sky and The Sound of Tree Rings.
“We are very excited to be re-opening in our newly renovated and accessible gallery and café and to welcome visitors back to experience media art. We have an indoor exhibition as well as an outdoor installation and our internet café with seating will once again allow for many community connections and art-inspired conversations.
New Adventures in Sound Art’s staff and board of directors are very grateful for the funding received from the NOHFC that contributed towards the upgrades of NAISA’s new facilities. We are also thankful for the many donations received from supporters far and wide that contributed towards the purchase of this new location. This combined support will have a lasting contribution to the future vitality of NAISA as a media arts organization as well as to South River’s community as a whole." — Nadene Thériault-Copeland, Executive Director, New Adventures in Sound Art
Indoor and Outdoor Exhibitions
Tree Earth Sky by Wild Empathy is a VR experience that invites visitors to look and listen to the underground mycelium network and its connected old-growth grove of trees on Vancouver Island, in 8K definition with ambisonic audio. The Sound of Tree Rings by Simon Lysander Overstall is a generative musical work composed from the tree rings of a ‘tree cookie’ originating from an old growth cedar tree in Stanley Park (Xwayxway) downed in the windstorm of 2006.
The Decomposing Piano installation is a semi-permanent outdoor installation exploring the effects of the Northern Ontario climate on an upright piano. A ruined piano is a piano left outside in a natural environment for an extended period of time (see https://bolleter.wixsite.com/warpsmusic for further insights). With the gradual "decomposition" of the piano over time, new sounds will be uncovered with the aid of contact microphones and subtle forms of material born amplification. Through its entire decomposition process, the public is invited to play the piano and experience its transformation over the next year to 2 years.
January 17, 2023, 1:00 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on January 17 to celebrate the opening of its exhibition space and café at its new location at 313 Highway 124 in South River Ontario. This will take place in conjunction with the annual international Art’s Birthday celebration and will include an outdoor performance on NAISA’s Decomposing Piano installation. There is also an exhibition indoors - Tree Earth Sky and The Sound of Tree Rings.
“We are very excited to be re-opening in our newly renovated and accessible gallery and café and to welcome visitors back to experience media art. We have an indoor exhibition as well as an outdoor installation and our internet café with seating will once again allow for many community connections and art-inspired conversations.
New Adventures in Sound Art’s staff and board of directors are very grateful for the funding received from the NOHFC that contributed towards the upgrades of NAISA’s new facilities. We are also thankful for the many donations received from supporters far and wide that contributed towards the purchase of this new location. This combined support will have a lasting contribution to the future vitality of NAISA as a media arts organization as well as to South River’s community as a whole." — Nadene Thériault-Copeland, Executive Director, New Adventures in Sound Art
Indoor and Outdoor Exhibitions
Tree Earth Sky by Wild Empathy is a VR experience that invites visitors to look and listen to the underground mycelium network and its connected old-growth grove of trees on Vancouver Island, in 8K definition with ambisonic audio. The Sound of Tree Rings by Simon Lysander Overstall is a generative musical work composed from the tree rings of a ‘tree cookie’ originating from an old growth cedar tree in Stanley Park (Xwayxway) downed in the windstorm of 2006.
The Decomposing Piano installation is a semi-permanent outdoor installation exploring the effects of the Northern Ontario climate on an upright piano. A ruined piano is a piano left outside in a natural environment for an extended period of time (see https://bolleter.wixsite.com/warpsmusic for further insights). With the gradual "decomposition" of the piano over time, new sounds will be uncovered with the aid of contact microphones and subtle forms of material born amplification. Through its entire decomposition process, the public is invited to play the piano and experience its transformation over the next year to 2 years.
Uvattini Uqaalajunga - J' Appel chez nous - I Am Calling Home
By Geronimo Inutiq
February 18, 2023, 7 pm
Performance at NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River. Audio stream at NAISA Radio and broadcast outdoors at Ice Follies site at Shabogesic Beach, North Bay.
General $12, in-person tickets here. Free for broadcast.
Geronimo Inutiq will be in residence for the Deep Wireless Festival to create a new commissioned radio art performance based on his ongoing project "Uvattini Uqaalajunga - J' Appel chez nous - I Am Calling Home." The performance can be experienced live in three different ways. As an in-person performance at NAISA in South River, as a digital audio broadcast on NAISA Radio, and as a sited audio broadcast at Ice Follies.
The project was initiated by Geronimo Inutiq during a residency with the SAW Nordic Lab in 2020 and has evolved into an installation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture and also into a virtual broadcaster that transmits a community show in three languages - English, French, and Inuktitut. All of these have weaved together experiences of living in the north from multiple cultural perspectives.
The content of his performance at Deep Wireless will remix voices recorded at round table discussions on Feb 16 at 2 pm at NAISA in South River and 8 pm at the Digital Creator Lab in North Bay. The round table discussions will explore how notions of home are shaped by natural environments and how these are different across different regions and cultures in the Canadian North.
Inutiq's appearance is part of NAISA's Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art and is supported in part by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Thank you to Digital Creator Lab and Ice Follies Festival in North Bay for their support of the North Bay events in this project. Photo by Robert Geoffrion.
By Geronimo Inutiq
February 18, 2023, 7 pm
Performance at NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River. Audio stream at NAISA Radio and broadcast outdoors at Ice Follies site at Shabogesic Beach, North Bay.
General $12, in-person tickets here. Free for broadcast.
Geronimo Inutiq will be in residence for the Deep Wireless Festival to create a new commissioned radio art performance based on his ongoing project "Uvattini Uqaalajunga - J' Appel chez nous - I Am Calling Home." The performance can be experienced live in three different ways. As an in-person performance at NAISA in South River, as a digital audio broadcast on NAISA Radio, and as a sited audio broadcast at Ice Follies.
The project was initiated by Geronimo Inutiq during a residency with the SAW Nordic Lab in 2020 and has evolved into an installation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture and also into a virtual broadcaster that transmits a community show in three languages - English, French, and Inuktitut. All of these have weaved together experiences of living in the north from multiple cultural perspectives.
The content of his performance at Deep Wireless will remix voices recorded at round table discussions on Feb 16 at 2 pm at NAISA in South River and 8 pm at the Digital Creator Lab in North Bay. The round table discussions will explore how notions of home are shaped by natural environments and how these are different across different regions and cultures in the Canadian North.
Inutiq's appearance is part of NAISA's Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art and is supported in part by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Thank you to Digital Creator Lab and Ice Follies Festival in North Bay for their support of the North Bay events in this project. Photo by Robert Geoffrion.
Geronimo Inutiq is an electronic music producer, performer, DJ, multi-media artist, and operator of the Indigene Audio independent tape label.
Starting off as a hip hop producer in Quebec City with seminal Presha Pack crew in the mid-90s, Inutiq started further exploring electronic music production techniques through private research and at Concordia University.
Known for his work as "madeskimo" - and helping innovate a fusion of Inuit throat-singing and drumming with electronic beats - Inutiq has also become recognized for doing video and visual art in the context of museum, galleries, and public exhibits.
Photo: Jocelyn Piirainen
Remote Connections Concert
March 3, 2023, 7 pm
Online Only - Click Here to Register
General $12, Click Here for Advance Registration
Three works from the Deep Wireless 17 Radio Art Compilation Album will be included in this online event on the theme _Remote Connections_. The presentation will feature a new work by Anton Pickard - this year's James Bailey award winner - as well as works by Juro Kim Feliz and Faisal Karadsheh.
Faisal Karadsheh's "to be heard (soundwalk’in_2021)" is derived from recordings of street protests in Toronto responding to national and international events. Anton Pickard features the sounds of dial up modems, morse code and the RCI shortwave interval signal. Juro Kim Feliz's "Kinalugarán" highlights the invisibility of Filipino artists based in first-world diaspora.
March 3, 2023, 7 pm
Online Only - Click Here to Register
General $12, Click Here for Advance Registration
Three works from the Deep Wireless 17 Radio Art Compilation Album will be included in this online event on the theme _Remote Connections_. The presentation will feature a new work by Anton Pickard - this year's James Bailey award winner - as well as works by Juro Kim Feliz and Faisal Karadsheh.
Faisal Karadsheh's "to be heard (soundwalk’in_2021)" is derived from recordings of street protests in Toronto responding to national and international events. Anton Pickard features the sounds of dial up modems, morse code and the RCI shortwave interval signal. Juro Kim Feliz's "Kinalugarán" highlights the invisibility of Filipino artists based in first-world diaspora.
Program:
I. to be heard (soundwalk’in 2021) by Faisal Karadsheh
This work considers how bodies connect, congregate and organize themselves together. Paradoxically, the work was produced when governments regulated the proximity of social bodies, at a time when mass gatherings and protests were needed to facilitate social change. The protests addressed either national, transnational and international events as a way to connect, remotely, to a cause happening elsewhere.
The work is derived from a soundwalk project where listeners can experience the pieces by visiting the location and listening to the associated audio. For details go to: faisalkaradsheh.myportfolio.com/soundwalkin2021. In the soundwalk project the process of concentrating or suppressing “voices of protest”, as suggested by Hito Steyerl, is being explored formally. The site is composed of three distinct locations within a very specific region in Toronto. The three protests (Anti-Lockdown, Palestinian, Tamil) transpired at varying times during 2021, yet seem to align across a section of the city. The abstracted sound works examine the process of documenting and formally articulating protests, in connection to its position within the urban fabric and sonic landscape of the city.
This work considers how bodies connect, congregate and organize themselves together. Paradoxically, the work was produced when governments regulated the proximity of social bodies, at a time when mass gatherings and protests were needed to facilitate social change. The protests addressed either national, transnational and international events as a way to connect, remotely, to a cause happening elsewhere.
The work is derived from a soundwalk project where listeners can experience the pieces by visiting the location and listening to the associated audio. For details go to: faisalkaradsheh.myportfolio.com/soundwalkin2021. In the soundwalk project the process of concentrating or suppressing “voices of protest”, as suggested by Hito Steyerl, is being explored formally. The site is composed of three distinct locations within a very specific region in Toronto. The three protests (Anti-Lockdown, Palestinian, Tamil) transpired at varying times during 2021, yet seem to align across a section of the city. The abstracted sound works examine the process of documenting and formally articulating protests, in connection to its position within the urban fabric and sonic landscape of the city.
II. Sound Connections by Anton Pickard
Sound Connections is constructed from 3 distinctive sounds. They are all from technologies that used sound to provide human connection across long distances. The sound sources include morse code, a dial up modem “handshake” and a shortwave interval signal from Radio Canada International.
Sound Connections is constructed from 3 distinctive sounds. They are all from technologies that used sound to provide human connection across long distances. The sound sources include morse code, a dial up modem “handshake” and a shortwave interval signal from Radio Canada International.
III. Kinalugarán by Juro Kim Feliz
The Filipino word ‘kinalugaran’ refers to the site where something is set in position. “Kinalugarán” highlights invisibility among inhabited places as it interrogates Filipino artists based in first-world diaspora: violinist Ramon Alfonso Soberano (Tempe, Arizona, United States); film composer Marie-Luise Calvero (Freiburg, Germany); and theatre creator Riley Palanca (Montreal, Canada).
“Kinalugarán” includes additional recordings of Philippine indigenous instruments (“Idaw,” “Dayaw”) by Jayson Palolan, used with permission. The creation of “Kinalugarán” is made possible with the support of the Ontario Arts Council.
The Filipino word ‘kinalugaran’ refers to the site where something is set in position. “Kinalugarán” highlights invisibility among inhabited places as it interrogates Filipino artists based in first-world diaspora: violinist Ramon Alfonso Soberano (Tempe, Arizona, United States); film composer Marie-Luise Calvero (Freiburg, Germany); and theatre creator Riley Palanca (Montreal, Canada).
“Kinalugarán” includes additional recordings of Philippine indigenous instruments (“Idaw,” “Dayaw”) by Jayson Palolan, used with permission. The creation of “Kinalugarán” is made possible with the support of the Ontario Arts Council.
Reveil
12:00 AM May 6 to 1:00 AM May 7
Listen on the Reveil Portal or on NAISA Radio
Reveil is a 24+1 hr radio broadcast that follows sunrise around the earth on Dawn Chorus Day, traveling west on live audio streams sent in by streamers at daybreak from their locations. Reveil brings city yards, remote rural sites, fresh and salt water bodies into communication, creating a collective audit of planetary soundworlds over one earth day.
Streams are hosted on the live soundmap by Locus Sonus (ESAAIX, Aix en Provence) with the support of Creacast, France. The broadcast is hosted by Wave Farm (Acra NY), Resonance Extra and can also be heard on NAISA Radio. Follow the Reveil portal during the broadcast for additional content and background.
Reveil 2023 is produced in London by Soundcamp, again in collaboration with guest mixers Leah Barclay in Australia and Fernando Godoy (Radio Tsonami) in Chile.
Partner organisations in the Acoustic Commons project: Full Of Noises (Cumbria UK) · Locus Sonus (Aix FR) · Radio CONA (Ljubljana SI) · HMU and TUC (Crete GR) · Cyberforest (Tokyo JP)
To propose a stream, soundcamp or transmission work, or to relay the broadcast, please use the short sign-up form.
12:00 AM May 6 to 1:00 AM May 7
Listen on the Reveil Portal or on NAISA Radio
Reveil is a 24+1 hr radio broadcast that follows sunrise around the earth on Dawn Chorus Day, traveling west on live audio streams sent in by streamers at daybreak from their locations. Reveil brings city yards, remote rural sites, fresh and salt water bodies into communication, creating a collective audit of planetary soundworlds over one earth day.
Streams are hosted on the live soundmap by Locus Sonus (ESAAIX, Aix en Provence) with the support of Creacast, France. The broadcast is hosted by Wave Farm (Acra NY), Resonance Extra and can also be heard on NAISA Radio. Follow the Reveil portal during the broadcast for additional content and background.
Reveil 2023 is produced in London by Soundcamp, again in collaboration with guest mixers Leah Barclay in Australia and Fernando Godoy (Radio Tsonami) in Chile.
Partner organisations in the Acoustic Commons project: Full Of Noises (Cumbria UK) · Locus Sonus (Aix FR) · Radio CONA (Ljubljana SI) · HMU and TUC (Crete GR) · Cyberforest (Tokyo JP)
To propose a stream, soundcamp or transmission work, or to relay the broadcast, please use the short sign-up form.
Fundraising Performance #1 on The Decomposing Piano
By James Bailey and Nadene Thériault-Copeland
June 24, 2023, 7:00 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
General $12, Click Here to Donate and for Online Access
By James Bailey and Nadene Thériault-Copeland
June 24, 2023, 7:00 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
General $12, Click Here to Donate and for Online Access
The Decomposing Piano sounds different almost everyday which provides a unique challenge for improvisation and spontaneous composition. Join us for the first of three special fundraising performances. This first one features both artists performing solo and as a duo.
James Bailey is a sonic explorer from Toronto who has been recording sound pieces since the mid-'70s and performing on occasion since the early '80s. He has also been known to play objects unmodified by electronics, including instruments, though rarely in a conventional manner.
James Bailey is a sonic explorer from Toronto who has been recording sound pieces since the mid-'70s and performing on occasion since the early '80s. He has also been known to play objects unmodified by electronics, including instruments, though rarely in a conventional manner.
Nadene Thériault-Copeland received her Honours B.A. in Music from York University in 1991 where she studied composition with James Tenney and performance with Christina Petrowska-Quilico. Her interest in improv and alternative tunings led her to create the Decomposing Piano exhibit. Nadene is the Executive Director of New Adventures in Sound Art.
Learning Through Listening - Online Screening
July 15 @ 7pm Online Event
General $12, Advance Registration Required
Enjoy this online screening on July 15. Featured is the film "Listening (with Hildegard Westerkamp)" by filmmakers Mike Hoolboom and Heather Frise and "Accidental Wilderness" by media and sound artist Alëna Korolëva.
The online presentation will include a Q&A with the artists. See July 18 event listing for programme details.
July 15 @ 7pm Online Event
General $12, Advance Registration Required
Enjoy this online screening on July 15. Featured is the film "Listening (with Hildegard Westerkamp)" by filmmakers Mike Hoolboom and Heather Frise and "Accidental Wilderness" by media and sound artist Alëna Korolëva.
The online presentation will include a Q&A with the artists. See July 18 event listing for programme details.
Learning Through Listening - World Listening Day Soundwalk and Screening
July 18 @ 7pm In-Person Event
Warbler’s Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Road, South River
General $12, Advance Registration Required
NAISA's contribution to World Listening Day 2023 features a SOUNDwalk exploring the mid-summer soundscape of Deer Lake in Lount Township (22 KM west of South River) as well as a screening of Listening (with Hildegard Westerkamp) by filmmakers Mike Hoolboom and Heather Frise and Accidental Wilderness by media and sound artist Alëna Korolëva.
Hundreds of organizations and thousands of people from six continents have participated in World Listening Day since its inception in 2010. The annual grass roots event is about engaging with important questions related to listening, ecology, and the future. Visit the World Listening Day website to host a World Listening Day event in your home region.
July 18 @ 7pm In-Person Event
Warbler’s Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Road, South River
General $12, Advance Registration Required
NAISA's contribution to World Listening Day 2023 features a SOUNDwalk exploring the mid-summer soundscape of Deer Lake in Lount Township (22 KM west of South River) as well as a screening of Listening (with Hildegard Westerkamp) by filmmakers Mike Hoolboom and Heather Frise and Accidental Wilderness by media and sound artist Alëna Korolëva.
Hundreds of organizations and thousands of people from six continents have participated in World Listening Day since its inception in 2010. The annual grass roots event is about engaging with important questions related to listening, ecology, and the future. Visit the World Listening Day website to host a World Listening Day event in your home region.
Program:
I. Listening by Mike Hoolboom and Heather Frise
A short biographical video of iconic Vancouver composer and sound ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp. She was the only woman to participate in the original version of the World Soundscape project that not only brought new ears to city life, but laid the foundation for noise bylaws/pollution standards, radically upending traditional notions of music, the role of the composer, and found new uses for the portable tape recorder. In addition, Hildegard has brought the art of sound walking to groups around the world, and in these face-to-face encounters she has formulated a deep feminist ecology rooted in the body. This experimentalist short offers a place for the viewer to listen, conjuring the space of listening as the necessary precondition for personal and societal change.
A short biographical video of iconic Vancouver composer and sound ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp. She was the only woman to participate in the original version of the World Soundscape project that not only brought new ears to city life, but laid the foundation for noise bylaws/pollution standards, radically upending traditional notions of music, the role of the composer, and found new uses for the portable tape recorder. In addition, Hildegard has brought the art of sound walking to groups around the world, and in these face-to-face encounters she has formulated a deep feminist ecology rooted in the body. This experimentalist short offers a place for the viewer to listen, conjuring the space of listening as the necessary precondition for personal and societal change.
II. Accidental Wilderness by Alëna Korolëva
A selections of pieces from Korolëva's album of field recording-based compositions will be presented. The pieces grew from listening to the sounds of the ever-changing boundary between the city of Toronto and Lake Ontario. The waterfront is a transition zone where sounds of animals, plants, people, machines and water meet and overlap.
The title "Accidental Wilderness" refers to the transformation of a wasteland into new natural habitats. This happened in Toronto as wildlife reclaimed islands of construction garbage which had been dumped into the lake. Over the years the site became a lush green park, a home and meeting place for many different species. The coastline of Lake Ontario is forever chaging because of climate change and colonial interventions.
There are many kinds of creatures living on the waterfront of Toronto, it is a densely populated place with much more biodiversity than surrounding areas. This transition zone between the city and wildlife is a complex and fluid boundary, hosting not only varieties of native species but also acting as an international hub for migratory birds.
The city borders look concrete but they are a temporary arrangement, and colonial domination can be not only stopped but reversed. Borrowed/stolen land one day can be taken back. Will the city be consumed by the rising water levels or will the lake recede due to droughts? There is no way to predict the future, but new condo towers and “revitalisation” projects just a few steps from a colossal body of water seem the result of wishful thinking.
A selections of pieces from Korolëva's album of field recording-based compositions will be presented. The pieces grew from listening to the sounds of the ever-changing boundary between the city of Toronto and Lake Ontario. The waterfront is a transition zone where sounds of animals, plants, people, machines and water meet and overlap.
The title "Accidental Wilderness" refers to the transformation of a wasteland into new natural habitats. This happened in Toronto as wildlife reclaimed islands of construction garbage which had been dumped into the lake. Over the years the site became a lush green park, a home and meeting place for many different species. The coastline of Lake Ontario is forever chaging because of climate change and colonial interventions.
There are many kinds of creatures living on the waterfront of Toronto, it is a densely populated place with much more biodiversity than surrounding areas. This transition zone between the city and wildlife is a complex and fluid boundary, hosting not only varieties of native species but also acting as an international hub for migratory birds.
The city borders look concrete but they are a temporary arrangement, and colonial domination can be not only stopped but reversed. Borrowed/stolen land one day can be taken back. Will the city be consumed by the rising water levels or will the lake recede due to droughts? There is no way to predict the future, but new condo towers and “revitalisation” projects just a few steps from a colossal body of water seem the result of wishful thinking.
Fundraising Performance #2 on The Decomposing Piano
By Julia Breckenridge and Nadene Thériault-Copeland
July 29, 2023, 7:00 pm
Live-streamed online and in-person at NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
General $12, Click Here for Tickets and Online Access
By Julia Breckenridge and Nadene Thériault-Copeland
July 29, 2023, 7:00 pm
Live-streamed online and in-person at NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
General $12, Click Here for Tickets and Online Access
The second of three fundraising concerts on the Decomposing Piano will take place at the newly located NAISA North Media Arts Centre and Cafe on Saturday July 29 at 7pm EDT. You can attend either in-person or on-line as the concert will also be live-streamed.
Local Guest artist Julie Breckenridge will be performing with Nadene Thériault-Copeland to bring out the unusual, the percussive, the strange and the beautiful sounds on this ever-changing instrument that continues to surprise and delight so many passersby outdoors at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre.
All funds raised for this concert will be used to support NASA's ongoing Community Art Projects and the presentation of Sound-based Media Art works at NAISA's new location.
Local Guest artist Julie Breckenridge will be performing with Nadene Thériault-Copeland to bring out the unusual, the percussive, the strange and the beautiful sounds on this ever-changing instrument that continues to surprise and delight so many passersby outdoors at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre.
All funds raised for this concert will be used to support NASA's ongoing Community Art Projects and the presentation of Sound-based Media Art works at NAISA's new location.
Julia Breckenridge Along with collecting crystals, minerals and fossils since she was a child, Julia Breckenridge has also had a keen in interest in music throughout her life. Julia was given piano lessons at age 4 and played the organ in churches in her teen years, having had lessons in Bedford cathedral England. Later on she played clarinet in a band for 13 years and now enjoys improvising with her son David whenever she gets the chance. Julia is also the co-owner of the Crystal Cave Museum in South River, is a biologist with a background in geology and obtained both her BSc ED and Ontario Teachers Certificate and certification in Special Education. After many years of teaching, Julia has also ventured into the area of visual art with her macro-photography of the various mineral specimens she collects.
Nadene Thériault-Copeland received her Honours B.A. in Music from York University in 1991 where she studied composition with James Tenney and performance with Christina Petrowska-Quilico. Her interest in improv and alternative tunings led her to create the Decomposing Piano exhibit. Nadene is the Executive Director of New Adventures in Sound Art.
Fundraising Concert #3 and Silent Auction
By Donna Brock and Nadene Thériault-Copeland
August 26, 2023, 7:00 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
General $12, Click Here for Tickets and Online Access
Local Guest artist Donna Brock performs with Nadene Thériault-Copeland to bring out the unusual, percussive, strange and beautiful sounds on both the violin and this ever-changing instrument - the Decomposing Piano - that continues to surprise and delight so many passersby outdoors at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre.
There will also be a Silent Auction for a gift basket donated by Julia and John Breckenridge from the Crystal Cave Museum: Porphory, Druzie, Selenite, Red Cap, Amethyst, Fuschite, Galena Quartz, Copper, Selenite, Bornite and Red Quartz. Bidding starts at $20 on August 26 at 7pm via email naisa@naisa.ca. Bidding will end on Sunday August 27 at 7pm.
By Donna Brock and Nadene Thériault-Copeland
August 26, 2023, 7:00 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
General $12, Click Here for Tickets and Online Access
Local Guest artist Donna Brock performs with Nadene Thériault-Copeland to bring out the unusual, percussive, strange and beautiful sounds on both the violin and this ever-changing instrument - the Decomposing Piano - that continues to surprise and delight so many passersby outdoors at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre.
There will also be a Silent Auction for a gift basket donated by Julia and John Breckenridge from the Crystal Cave Museum: Porphory, Druzie, Selenite, Red Cap, Amethyst, Fuschite, Galena Quartz, Copper, Selenite, Bornite and Red Quartz. Bidding starts at $20 on August 26 at 7pm via email naisa@naisa.ca. Bidding will end on Sunday August 27 at 7pm.
Donna Brock was introduced to the violin at age 8, and embraced Old Time Fiddle and Folk Music as an adult. She enjoys improvising and accompanying other musicians, playing with local bands like the Deelies and the FernGlen FiddleHeads. Donna has her BA from Laurentian and later trained as a stone sculptor (Sir Stanford Flemming College). She is a retired Piano Tuner (George Brown College) with a keen interest in the Decomopsing Piano’s journey as she is one of the team that brought the idea to fruition.
Nadene Thériault-Copeland received her Honours B.A. in Music from York University in 1991 where she studied composition with James Tenney and performance with Christina Petrowska-Quilico. Her interest in improv and alternative tunings led her to create the Decomposing Piano exhibit. Nadene is the Executive Director of New Adventures in Sound Art.
Threads of an Unwritten Future
Online performance in Second Life
By Kelly Ruth
December 9, 2023 at 7pm
Click Here for Access in Second Life
FREE
Online performance in Second Life
By Kelly Ruth
December 9, 2023 at 7pm
Click Here for Access in Second Life
FREE
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) presents Edmonton artist Kely Ruth in the virtual world of Second Life for her performance of "Threads of an Unwritten Future." A YouTube playback of this performance will be included on December 12 at 2 pm in You And I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death - a 12 hour broadcast event.
In her performance "Threads of an Unwritten Future" Kelly Ruth composes and performs using a weaving loom manipulated by electronics effects pedals and she integrates those sounds into a customized installation environment in Second Life. The installation is accessible until January 8 at the NAISA North Medida Arts Centre in South River and in Second Life.
Having explored virtual worlds intermittently over the past 20 years or so, Kelly Ruth returned to Second Life during the COVID pandemic after nearly a decade of absence. With a renewed fascination she has found hope in a future that integrates virtual worlds into the fabric of life. This interest has reinvigorated her practice with a playful curiosity and an excitement for the emerging reinvention of many things that are currently taken for granted.
Kelly Ruth describes the installation environment in Second Life as follows:
"Working with both a weaving loom and a spinning wheel in my sound practice has led me to explore the personification of destiny in the form of the archetypical Three Fates. The three women—Clothos who spins the thread, Lachesis who measures the allotted length, and Atropos who cuts the thread with shears—seem to exist in another dimension responsible for the human experience of linear time. This exhibit reflects on the word “allotment” and its relationship to the fragilities and transitory nature of life, economy, society, and imagined futures.
In her performance "Threads of an Unwritten Future" Kelly Ruth composes and performs using a weaving loom manipulated by electronics effects pedals and she integrates those sounds into a customized installation environment in Second Life. The installation is accessible until January 8 at the NAISA North Medida Arts Centre in South River and in Second Life.
Having explored virtual worlds intermittently over the past 20 years or so, Kelly Ruth returned to Second Life during the COVID pandemic after nearly a decade of absence. With a renewed fascination she has found hope in a future that integrates virtual worlds into the fabric of life. This interest has reinvigorated her practice with a playful curiosity and an excitement for the emerging reinvention of many things that are currently taken for granted.
Kelly Ruth describes the installation environment in Second Life as follows:
"Working with both a weaving loom and a spinning wheel in my sound practice has led me to explore the personification of destiny in the form of the archetypical Three Fates. The three women—Clothos who spins the thread, Lachesis who measures the allotted length, and Atropos who cuts the thread with shears—seem to exist in another dimension responsible for the human experience of linear time. This exhibit reflects on the word “allotment” and its relationship to the fragilities and transitory nature of life, economy, society, and imagined futures.
Kelly Ruth has been activating her textiles and tools through using electronics and sound, and has been integrating microcontrollers into the foundations of her woven cloth. In performance she uses contact microphones and effects pedals on her weaving loom and other fibre-related tools in addition to light activated drone machines that she has built herself. She has created several bodies of work using weaving, felting and dyeing with plants, recognizing these as early technologies, and a relationship that humans have had with the land. Most recently she has been researching, creating, and performing in virtual worlds with her continued interest in humanities relationship to technology.
Issue 130 of Musicworks Magazine profiled Kelly Ruth.